Lumen de Lumine

Name: Lumen de Lumine
Author: Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)

A New Magical Light · The Complete 1651 First Edition

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LUMEN DE LUMINE: OR A new Magicall Light discovered, and Communicated to the WORLD By Eugenius Philalethes. GEN. 1.3. And God said, Let there be Light. JOHN 1. Chap: Ver. 5. And the Light shineth in the Darknesse. Pythag. Ne loquaris Deo absque Lumine. LONDON, Printed for H. BLUNDEN at the Castle in Corne-Hil. 1651.

Modern English

LIGHT FROM LIGHT OR A New Magical Light Discovered and Communicated to the World By Eugenius Philalethes GENESIS 1:3 And God said, ‘Let there be light.’ JOHN 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness. PYTHAGORAS Do not speak to God without light. LONDON Printed for H. Blunden at the Castle in Cornhill, 1651.

About This Reading Edition

The complete 1651 Lumen de Lumine, or A New Magical Light, by Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), with original and modern English, fresh translations of the Latin, Greek and Hebrew passages, the historical emblem and its inscriptions, all twelve Magical Aphorisms, 105 annotations and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), Lumen de Lumine, or A New Magicall Light. London: H. Blunden, 1651. Governing witness: Wellcome Collection EPB/A/69096.4, digitisation b30340160, Wing V150, ESTC R146. Source credit: Wellcome Collection; Public Domain Mark.

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